Notes From The Record Room: Henry Rollins, Tropical Fuck Storm, IRK, Stimmerman, mclusky, Damaged Bug, Kathryn Mohr
Summarizing the week in music: Henry Rollins turned 65; see live videos from Tropical Fuck Storm and IRK; two new singles from the latest project by Stimmerman; release announcements from mclusky and Damaged Bug (John Dwyer of Osees); and a haunting single from Kathryn Mohr’s upcoming album, Carve.
In The Headphones: Zu’s Ferrum Sidereum
Zu, Italian purveyors of metallically-tinged jazz and the unsettlingly avant, have issued Ferrum Sidereum: an 80-minute masterclass in “metallic hard bop, feral calculus, and dark electronics.”
What’s (Re)New?: KoenjiHyakkei, Unrest, Dome
More of a journal entry than a review, I’m spotlighting some reissues I recently acquired by Koenji Hyakkei, Unrest, and Dome (Wire’s Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert).